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November 02, 2009 12:27:19pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: any Scientologists around here? |
First let me say I am NOT.
I have had my exploration into many esoteric traditions though, which I was led to through our favorite bands Egyptian images.
I just have to say that I have only been warned to STAY AWAY from one group, Scientology.
L Ron was a member of a legitimate group of Seekers prior to starting Scientology, which I have studied with. I can see how he perverted a legitimate path to potential liberation for personal gain in my humble experience, which is one of the worst perversions of the Path.
There are as many Paths as there are sentient beings and each will have its own risk and rewards but some like Scientology will have there own unique repercussions.
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bluedevil |
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November 02, 2009 12:42:04pm |
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Are they the ones that say a higher being had a human child that was nailed to the cross, left for dead, got up and ascended into the heavens and now we all have a get out of hell free card? If so, sign me up!
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buscameby |
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November 02, 2009 12:45:24pm |
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Sorry no free rides , "freedom with responsibility".
The wheel is turning and it comes back around*S*.
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William Tell |
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November 02, 2009 01:34:46pm |
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Hey bus--appreciate the candor...don't let that irreverent drivel above alter things too much...esp that of the likes of Blue Devil, in which the handle speaks for itself.
Eh?
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November 02, 2009 01:49:18pm |
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Careful PM, my theta reading is off the charts! (and I was able to charge most of the expenses for obtaining this higher level to my AMEX card)
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William Tell |
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November 02, 2009 02:15:30pm |
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Ha! That is too frickin funny! Ah...well, here I sit worried about my Lakers, and surprised that no one has popped the bubble that IS the Suns...time will tell.
Shaq, I don't think, is working out in his new digs either.
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bluedevil |
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November 02, 2009 02:18:58pm |
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How can you seriously ponder the NBA when the World Series is still going on and college hoops hasn't officially begun? The only two words I care about right now in hoops are HARRISON BARNES. I pay attention to the NBA starting around the third week of April.
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William Tell |
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November 02, 2009 02:27:06pm |
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Understood...I'll get back to you. And, good luck with that...har, har.
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 02, 2009 02:24:46pm |
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While the Suns have their Bubble to deal with, I cant wait to see how the Celts pan out this season. Seeing Wallace, Pierce and Garnett coming down the court at me would be a bit unnerving.
I know, someone out there must have a good joke about Mr. Davis and his broken finger. What an idiot.
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bluedevil |
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November 02, 2009 02:41:15pm |
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Shelden "The Landlord" Williams is exceedingly thankful to him for Big Baby's dumb move. Thus far, getting good minutes and giving quality production.
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robthewordsmith |
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November 02, 2009 02:48:02pm |
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In all honesty, as a transatlantically challenged member of this 'umble community, I have to say that I find such remarks as opaquely occult as anything formulated by the Golden Hermeneutical Scientological Akands of Swat.
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William Tell |
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November 02, 2009 03:00:53pm |
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Ha! Yep, BD, SDH and I have to submit/admit to being members of the "sports is religion" community of misfits...Dire too no doubt, but he roots for the PATS (who SUCK!), so we'll leave him out of it for now...
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robthewordsmith |
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November 02, 2009 03:09:50pm |
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... he said despairingly.
Actually basketball and ice hockey I can watch and enjoy, but (American) football and baseball don't make a lot of sense to me. Guess I need to sit through a game with someone knowledgeable who can do me a play-by-play.
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 03, 2009 05:59:59am |
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"...with someone knowledgeable who can do me..."
C'mon, Rob. That one is just too easy. Even for me.
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robthewordsmith |
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November 03, 2009 06:05:41am |
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Why, SDH, did I say something wrong? Isn't play-by-play what you sportsboys call it? Or is it ball-by ball?
:-)
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 03, 2009 06:37:23am |
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I think it best if we just leave the balls out of it.
And speaking of cricket, this may be my favorite name for a sports themed webiste:
http://wowbagger.blog.co.uk/tags/cricket/Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged my be the best character produced by English literature in the past 50 years.
This post was modified by SomeDarkHollow on 2009-11-03 14:37:23
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robthewordsmith |
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November 03, 2009 06:43:15am |
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"I reserve the absolute privilege to be right, wrong, misinformed, arbitrary, imbecilic and inarticulate. And anyone who chooses to read my blog has the right to tell me I am any or all of the above and I have the right not to give a fuck, but you never know, I just might?"
Substitute 'posts' for blog - and that would cover most of what goes on here.
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 03, 2009 06:54:44am |
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Oh, isn't that the truth.
I think the word "blog" (I hesitate to call it a word, but I have long given up on the hope that the English language can be saved) can best be summed up by that fine gentlemen's statement, regardless of the site's theme. Kudos to him.
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November 03, 2009 06:32:46am |
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Sprinting in from Third Man to gather SDH's miscued (Dead)hook. I've been mad about cricket since I was a kid going to watch Kent CCC with my Dad and his brothers (the early days of Knott and Underwood).
Usually get to some days of Test matches, but not this year as a result of Edgbaston reducing the number of tickets individuals can buy. Saw the Aussies against England A at Worcester, but it was too much of a friendly. Equally happy watching a Sunday afternoon game though.
Is that enough ? I'm off to listen to Roy Harper's magnificent 'When an old cricketer leaves the crease' followed by 'Soul Limbo'.
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SomeDarkHollow |
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November 03, 2009 07:52:21am |
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I think the sole reason that baseball was "invented" here was to come up with a sport with more rules than cricket. We'll show them Royalists! I mean, does cricket have anything close to a balk or the infield fly rule (look it up, tea-bagger)?
Then, of course, football came along and just blew 'em all out of the water.
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bluedevil |
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November 03, 2009 08:22:48am |
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I like the fact that when the NFL played a game in London a few years back that many over there thought that the "breaks" between plays was for the sole purpose of showing TV commercials.
...and I still think India was wrong to cancel their tour in Australia (but what do I know)
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November 03, 2009 09:24:56am |
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On one of my trips to London I was invited to watch day 2 of a test between England and Pakistan (before their coach was murdered). I spent the day at Lord's with some club members and even got into the members box at one point. It took a while to catch on to what was going on and what the strategies were, but by the end of the day i knew what an LBW was and why it was bad. England had a great day, although the test ended in draw. I find it hard to accept that a 5 day match of anything can end in a tie. Just doesn't seem proper or maybe it was too proper. Regardless the night before my flight back to the States I found myself in a hotel bar near the airport and I was watching one of those crazy tests from the Bahamas. Some other Yanks were there and apparently noticed that I seemed to be paying attention so they asked me to explain the game. In the lab we call it, "see one, do one, teach one."
Now the real spectacle at Lord's was the tremendous alcohol consumption. That was harder to comprehend than the sport.
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robthewordsmith |
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November 03, 2009 09:42:53am |
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It's very hard to explain to a cricketing non-believer just how it can be possible to hold a sporting contest over five days and still not determine a winner. But, as snori I'm sure would agree, seeing one team, with no chance of victory themselves dig in to play for a draw and frustrate the other team's chances can be pretty nailbiting.
And yes, we are prone to put away heroic quantities of alcohol at the slightest provocation. And that's why we're running close to 9000 alcohol-related deaths a year in this country. (Said the man with the gin and tonic...)
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snori |
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November 03, 2009 11:25:48am |
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If it were not for the copious amounts of alcohol consumed (Guilty) there would have been an epidemic of cardiac arrests at Cardiff on Day 5 of the First Test this year. (Anderson and Panesar).
I'm hoping for tickets for the Australia V Pakistan games being played here next summer.
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He Live's |
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November 23, 2010 10:54:44pm |
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LOL 00 the skinnies! 00
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November 03, 2009 07:56:46pm |
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I prefer Cricket to any other sport. Try finding broadcasts in the U.S. though... ha! :( I did hear about the long-awaited win at The Ashes though...
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November 03, 2009 06:53:00am |
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Shaq is doing fine, As soon as coaches finger out how to utilize him and Zadruonas Ig ( hell Big Z ).Granted the Cavs aren't off to the 17-0 start they posted a year ago, But as soon as we get a rotation down, the minutes that see Big Z and Shaq on the floor together will def be a an eye opener to the dreaded Celts,They (Cavs) will only get better and gel as the season progresses, Of course I've said the same about the Browns many a pre-seasons so all I can say WT is witness.
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William Tell |
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November 03, 2009 07:37:55am |
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I wish Shaq well--I hope he fits in better with James than he did here with Nash, and I really want to believe he'll help them defeat the absolutely dreaded Celtics (if memory serves, Dire is about the only Forum supporter of the boys in green that bring disgrace to the color of my ancestors...McGl and I loathe them for that and so much more [actually, taking liberties there with the big fella, but he usually lets me speak for him on all matters of B-ball esp when Dire is involved]).
But, for now, Shaq is all talk and PR, not unlike the Amare he left behind here...what we needed was D, and the Shaq of old might have provided that, but not the Shaq of law and order...
Good luck to you and your Browns, and Cavs, hippster! At least until we meet you in the finals as BD predicted last yr...
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November 03, 2009 08:03:47am |
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I do secrectly harbor doubts regarding Shaqs ability to play solid D, If the man could hit a free throw I could easily overlook it, and do a good job pretending that its all golden in Cav land But.... back to the Dead.
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November 02, 2009 01:43:47pm |
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I didn't take any of it as negative.
I don't feel like I had many choices, I got hit by a bus 25 years ago this week, smashed out the window of the bus, was thrown 30 ft and walked away unhurt.
I was then invited to the Greek 20th Anniversary shows where I the big event of the weekend was the 1st Cryptical in 13 yrs. I had been experimenting for many years but never had the type of experience I had that day. It was the beginning of a incredible 25 years which I celebrate every day.
Life IS MAGICAL suck every drop of the sweet marrow!
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William Tell |
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November 02, 2009 02:16:58pm |
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Sometimes, that's what it takes...this is going to sound terribly cynical, but having been thru three live changing events, it's starting to get old...each one, I thought, was the last! Damn it...this in NO WAY is meant to detract from the seriousness of what you went thru, Bus...just that I hoped to only do it myself...ONCE!
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November 02, 2009 02:19:17pm |
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bus - some clarification if you will, please. What was this 'legitimate group of seekers' of which Hubbard was a member? So far as I know he was a pulp sf writer before (and after) publishing Dianetics. So what was this 'Path' he supposedly perverted for personal gain?
"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." L. Ron Hubbard passim.
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buscameby |
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November 02, 2009 02:27:05pm |
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He was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,one the US Temples.
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November 02, 2009 02:35:53pm |
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So is that the same occult order founded in Britain at the end of the 19th century that Aleister Crowley and WH Auden were members of? Couldn't have been the US revival of the organisation because that wasn't founded until 1977.
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Misty Eastwood |
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November 02, 2009 03:00:26pm |
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I had teenage sex with a Scientologist.... We were both at Winterland atleast 3 times a week back then. Even did a not-so-quickly in the Basement around 1976. BGP props everywhere provided an ambiance only second to "The Wall".
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buscameby |
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November 02, 2009 02:55:45pm |
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Yes the same group originally but some members moved here to fulfill the American "Promise", this country was founded by "Cultist", all the stuff you see about Mason's and Templer's is based in some reality*S*.
Most were just trying to see themselves and their countries live up to our real promise as human beings. To remember who and what we really are and to live up to those values which make us truly "gods in the body of God".
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robthewordsmith |
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November 02, 2009 03:17:11pm |
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Did you ever read the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson? A most enlightening work.
All hail Discordia!
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bluedevil |
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November 02, 2009 03:23:26pm |
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Every Slacker devoted to the Church of the Subgenius owes Mr. Wilson a great debt of gratitude.
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robthewordsmith |
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November 02, 2009 03:41:39pm |
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don't see the fnord, don't see the fnord...
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buscameby |
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November 02, 2009 09:26:33pm |
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I've read all his works, a brilliant mind and sharp wit!
I found a few interviews with him on youtube, its a shame he died so early.
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November 02, 2009 02:55:43pm |
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The modern day Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was founded in 1977, long after LRH created Scientology. Hubbard was notorious for lying about his past, such as medals he never earned during his Naval career.
Then again, if you're willing to believe the Earth was created in 6 days, and a virgin birth, then Xenu and Thetan levels aren't so far-fetched.
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November 02, 2009 02:33:56pm |
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Stay away from the Twelve Tribes too.
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